Tapas. Hotel atriums. Tapas bars inside hotel atriums. Wall niches. Track lighting. Laminated information cards. Eight kinds of curtain valances. Indoor things designed to look like outdoor things. Blue-tinted water glasses. Hammered copper elevator doors. Brass earrings like Buddhist gongs. Thing and thing and thing: a life assembled from details that almost mean something. From virtual Portland to the streets of Boston, a woman moves through spaces that blur together-- corporate, decorative, vaguely intimate. Beneath the surface of repetition and pattern is a quieter reality: a private identity, carefully concealed, shared only with a few. Your Thoughts Are Important to Us is a fast-paced, formally inventive novel about dislocation, loneliness, and the fragile, often absurd desire for connection in a world that feels both over-designed and strangely empty.